Phil Elverum Quotes

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.

There is something to not always reminding people of a show they've already seen, but instead embracing the one right in front of him. I am Cody, and I can promise you that the future is going to be even better than the past.

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

There's something healing about tears.

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.

You learn that you can't take what's happened in the previous years for granted.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

If we can forgive, it will help us to grow and not remain stagnant in the same place. Then we can move on without animosity and hurt feelings.

Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship.

I try to forget the past.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.